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Can I get some help with a C program that checks another user input C program for the vulnerability buffer overflow i would like to

Can I get some help with a C program that checks another user input C program for the vulnerability buffer overflow i would like to see the actual code for it please this is what i have so far

#include

#include

#include

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

// Reserve 5 byte of buffer plus the terminating NULL.

// should allocate 8 bytes = 2 double words,

// To overflow, need more than 8 bytes...

char buffer[5]; // If more than 8 characters input

// by user, there will be access

// violation, segmentation fault

// a prompt how to execute the program...

if (argc < 2)

{

printf("strcpy() NOT executed.... ");

printf("Syntax: %s ", argv[0]);

exit(0);

}

// copy the user input to mybuffer, without any

// bound checking a secure version is srtcpy_s()

strcpy(buffer, argv[1]);

printf("buffer content= %s ", buffer);

printf("strcpy() executed... ");

return 0;

}

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